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...You can get away with murder in a 40-minute piece but not in three and a half,” Burt Bacharach said of pop songs....
...Its sophisticated sound, indebted to Burt Bacharach and West Coast psychedelia, failed to set the charts alight. They were given a second chance, but the follow-up also flopped....
...Accompanied by Burt Bacharach and a band of Soviet musicians, her stage appearances featured the famous near-nude beaded dress, so tightly sculpted it appeared to be glued on to her body, worn under an opulent...
...“Be Aware” is a classy 1971 version of a Burt Bacharach and Hal David composition. A 1974 cover of Carole King’s “You Light Up My Life” finds the singer in sophisticated adult-contemporary mode....
...“Marlene Dietrich” switches mode to an off-kilter approximation of lounge music, closer to the titular singer’s work with Burt Bacharach in the 1950s than the Weimar cabaret songs referenced in the lyrics...
...The US group owns the rights to thousands of songs from artists as diverse as Smokey Robinson, Whitney Houston, Burt Bacharach, Prince and Devo....
...A snatch of “The Look of Love”, introducing his own Burt Bacharach collaboration, “Photographs Can Lie”, made one wish for more of Costello the lounge singer....
...Her persona also suits the mellow, lounge-music style of Duncan Sheik’s songs (Amanda Green co-wrote the lyrics), which seem reminiscent of Stan Getz and Burt Bacharach (whose “What the World Needs Now”...
...The album finishes with a torch song and a waltz; “Love Letters”, twinned with “Song to the Evening Star”, would warm the stoniest heart while Burt Bacharach’s “Wives and Lovers” waltzes into the sunset...
...Made without his usual accompanists, The E Street Band, it places him in an orchestral-pop setting influenced by Glen Campbell and Burt Bacharach....
...Nadia gave up composing in her thirties to become arguably the most celebrated teacher of the century, counting among her pupils musicians as diverse as Elliott Carter and Philip Glass, Burt Bacharach and...
...It seems hugely unlikely that on completing “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” — one of the tartest, cleverest love songs ever written — Burt Bacharach and Hal David agreed that the only thing that could possibly...
...This week, the wonderful tale of “Alfie”, Bacharach and David’s theme to the 1966 film. (Burt Bacharach called it “one of the best” compositions in a luminous back catalogue.)...
...Burt Bacharach co-wrote three songs and plays piano on the ballads “Don’t Look Now” and “Photographs Can Lie”....
...He won a Grammy, with Burt Bacharach, in 1998 for “I Still Have That Other Girl” and his 2003 song “Scarlet Tide”, co-written with T-Bone Burnett for Cold Mountain, was nominated for an Oscar....
...Here, the vowel-stretching singer teams up with Manchester-based trumpeter Matthew Halsall on a set ranging from Burt Bacharach and Cole Porter to Donny Hathaway and John Coltrane....
...I don’t know,” she pauses and smiles, “how Burt Bacharach poses a question in his way. I thought it would be interesting to have that dialogue. You know, what’s my take?”...
...Even with music and lyrics by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and a book by Neil Simon, it’s thin stuff, particularly given its near three-hour running time — not sharp enough in its skewering of sexual hypocrisy...
...This summer it was held at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s recently acquired theatre The Other Palace, staging 10 new musicals and three concerts, including a new musical by Burt Bacharach and Steven Sater called...
...This Girl’s in Love: A Bacharach and David Songbook aims to recapture that time with covers of songs by one of pop’s greatest writing partnerships, Burt Bacharach and Hal David....
...The range of music was vast, reflecting Costello’s immensely varied career, from composer of acidic post-punk gems to collaborator with Burt Bacharach and Allen Toussaint....
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...Four years after its launch, the Love Supreme Jazz Festival seems to be maintaining the balance nicely: this year it upgraded the pop, with headline spots for Burt Bacharach and Grace Jones, yet also delivered...
...Bacharach songs from the 1960s....
...Burt Bacharach had been commissioned to write the score for the movie, and insisted on including a piece he had already named, in his head, “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head”....
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